how in the world the nation that invented public education can have schools performing in the bottom third or bottom fourth, math and science, it's beyond me. it's time pour us to make sure we put our kids and their parents and the teachers first and the teachers union will have to go behind. [ cheers and applause ] number four, you're not going to get entrepreneurs to take the risk that senator portman's grandfather took and borrowing $2,000 and restoring that building. you're not going to get entrepreneurs to take their life savings and put it into a new business or big companies to come and build new factories and put people to work unless they know we're not on the road to greece. if this president keeps on spending a trillion dollars more than we take in, that's the road we're on. and so i'm going to do something very different than he would. number four for me is we're going to cut federal spending. we're going to cap federal spending and finally get us on track to a balanced budget! [ cheers and applause ] one more. we want to champion small business. we're going to help small